CV — Michelle Foran

_{b. 1992, Toronto, ON, Canada.

@all.elbows

michelle.foran@hotmail.com}^{For 2025-2026, michelle has been the program’s coordinator at Arts Council Wood Buffalo in Fort McMurray, Alberta, and the Art Gallery Coordinator at the Kirschner Family Community Art Gallery at MacDonald Island Park.}

Education/Residencies/Awards

^{Sept.-Nov. 2024 Woodworking Studio Fellowship, Center for Furniture Craftsmandship, Rockport, Maine, USA}

^{July 2024 Craft Apprenticeship with Katrina Tompkins (Finefolk Furniture),
Prince Edward County, ON.

June 2024 Echo Lake XXIV Collaborative Art Conference, Bucks County Community College, Newtown, PA.

May 2024 Furniture Society Educational Grant, Workshop Scholarship at John C. Campbell Folk School

May 2024 International Contemporary Furniture Fair by way of Sheridan College Travel for Craft Grant, NY, NY.

May 2024 William and Mary Corcoran Highest Academic Achievement Award, Sheridan College of Technology and Applied Arts, Oakville, CA}

^{2020-2024 Honours Bachelor of Craft and Design, major in Furniture Design, Sheridan College of Technology and Applied Arts, Oakville, CA}

^{May-Sept. 2023 Internship and awards program in Woodworking and Furniture Design, Sculpture, and Digital Fabrication 3D Specialist), Anderson Ranch Arts Center, Snowmass Village, Colorado, USA

Jan.- April 2017 3M Foundation Artist Residency, Santa Marta, Colombia

2012-2018 BFA in Sculpture and Installation, minor in Photography, Ontario College of Art and Design University, Toronto, CA}

Solo Shows/Publications

^{2026 Northword Magazine Issue 34 Cover Artist, Fort McMurray, CA}

^{2026 Temporary Fix, Kirschner Family Community Art Gallery, Fort McMurray, CA

2019   Michelle Foran Open Studio, Coffin Factory Studios, Toronto, CA

2016   Half a Grapefruit is a Full Circle, Birch Contemporary, Toronto, CA

2014             Things Coloured, The Embassy, Toronto, CA. For Contact Photography Festival (May & June)}

Group Shows

^{2025 superblue: not just a house, Jerry Drown Gallery, Arrowmont School of Arts and Crafts, Gatlinburg, Tennessee, USA (Sept.-Nov.)}

^{2025   Collective Threads Community Art Exhibition curated by Michelle Foran, Kirschner Family Community Art Gallery, Fort McMurray, CA}

^{2024 Eight Quarter - Furniture Grad Show, 165 Geary Ave, Toronto, ON.

2024 Ideas + Objects, Craft and Design Capstone Exhibition, Sheridan College, Oakville, ON.

2024 Testing, Testing, Sheridan College Gallery, Trafalgar Campus, Oakville, CA

2023 Para La Madre, Carbondale Arts Center, Carbondale, Colorado, USA

2023             A Table for Fourteen, Anderson Ranch Arts Center, Snowmass, Colorado, USA

2023             Prototype Show, Interior Design Show, Toronto Convention Center, Toronto, CA

2021             Garden Variety, curated by Erin Storus in her backyard, Toronto, CA

2019             Out of the Blue, Good Sport Gallery, London, CA

2019           T-SHIRTS, The Baitshop, Toronto, CA

2019             Eulogy for the Coffin Factory, Coffin Factory Lofts, Toronto, CA

2017   La Pinateria, 3M Foundation, Santa Marta, Colombia

2017   Sudor Desconocido, 3M Foundation, Santa Marta, Colombia

2016             Stretched Painting, OCADU Gallery, Toronto, CA

2016             This is Not for You, 170 Spadina Road, Toronto, CA

2016 Ryan Gander: Auto-Abstraction and Happenstance in Art Making, Nomadic Resident Student Project Exhibition, OCADU, Toronto, CA

2016             GradEx 101, Ontario College of Art and Design University, Toronto, CA

2015             Yearns, Kapisanan Centre, Toronto, CA

2015             Patterns Magazine Installation, OCADU, Toronto, CA

2014             The Fire Doesn’t Burn Itself, The Afterhours Project, Toronto, CA

2014             Deck the Walls, Project Gallery, Toronto, CA

2014             Concurrent Streams, Project Gallery, Toronto, CA

2014             Runaway// A Poorsisters Music and Photo Show, MakeWorks, Toronto, CA}